julia gillardhttp://www.desmogblog.com/taxonomy/term/7471/all
enClimate Denialist Aussie Radio Host Must Take Fact-Checking Course, Says Authorityhttp://www.desmogblog.com/2012/10/18/climate-sceptic-aussie-radio-host-must-take-fact-checking-course-says-authority
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/jones_grab.jpg?itok=XgY1Hw4I" width="200" height="151" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span class="caps">IT</span>'S not been a great few weeks for Alan Jones, arguably Australia's most influential radio personality who believes global warming is a hoax and that climate change science is “<a href="http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/political/climate-change-witchcraft-jones/2609412.aspx" target="_blank">witchcraft</a>”.</p>
<p>In a humiliating episode, <a href="http://www.2gb.com/index.php?option=com_homepage&amp;id=1&amp;Itemid=44" target="_blank">Jones and his Sydney radio station <span class="caps">2GB</span></a> have agreed with the country's radio broadcasting watchdog to undergo training in fact-checking after complaints about a statement Jones had made about climate change.</p>
<p>Jones' most recent episode of self-inflicted misery began a few weeks ago, when the veteran broadcaster issued a half-hearted apology to the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard after telling a meeting of young Liberals that Ms Gillard's father had “died of shame” over what Jones described as her “lies”.</p>
<p>In the wake of Jones' invective, helped along by a social media campaign, <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/10/04/full-list-of-sponsors-to-pull-ads-from-the-alan-jones-breakfast-show/" target="_blank">dozens of advertisers pulled support</a> for Jones, who will <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/business/jones-to-keep-mercedes-until-end-of-month-20121009-27aqs.html" target="_blank">lose the use of a Mercedes-Benz car</a> loaned to the station by the car maker.</p>
<p>Now the <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=ACMA_ROLE_OVIEW" target="_blank">Australian Communications and Media Authority</a>, a government agency which regulates radio broadcasting, has revealed that it has <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_600069" target="_blank">agreed a series of measures with Jones and <span class="caps">2GB</span></a> over his fact-mangling on climate change.</p>
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<p>Among the measures, Jones' daily monologues that are a centrepiece of the show will have to be fact-checked first by his producer. Any documents used in fact checking will have to be retained. Jones and the rest of the current affairs staff at the station will also have to undergo training “concerning factual accuracy and significant viewpoints”.</p>
<p>Jones' stint in the classroom was sparked by three separate complaints about his broadcast on 15 March 2011 when, during a 12-minute segment, he told his audience:</p>
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Remembering all this when the percentage of man-made carbon dioxide Australia produces is 1 per cent of .001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air. Nature produces nearly all of the carbon dioxide in the air. Human beings produce 0.001 per cent of the carbon dioxide in the air and Australians produce 1 per cent of that. That's 1 per cent of .001 is .00001 per cent of the air. 1/100000th.</blockquote>
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For the record, it is simply misleading to compare natural emissions with human emissions, without considering natural absorptions. A half-truth is a whole lie. What's relevant is that by burning fossil fuels and pulling down forests, humans have upset the natural carbon cycle by adding tens of billions of tonnes of <span class="caps">CO</span>2 to the atmosphere every year.</p>
<p>Human emissions have increased levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by some 40 per cent since the beginning of the industrial revolution and caused the oceans to turn more acidic. But enough of facts and nuance.</p>
<p>To back up his view, Jones also quoted James M Taylor, a fellow at the Chicago-based <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute">Heartland Institute</a>. This is the institute which earlier this year <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-are-australian-backers-heartland-s-climate-denial" target="_blank">ran a billboard campaign</a> to “remind” the public that “the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.”</p>
<p>After reading his editorial set-piece, Jones then immediately interviewed Australian climate science sceptic Professor <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/rm-bob-carter">Bob Carter</a>, who it was revealed last year had been earmarked by Heartland to receive <a href="http://www.readfearn.com/2012/02/bob-carter-responds-to-heartland-leak/" target="_blank">$1667 a month in 2012</a> to work on one of the think tank's projects.</p>
<p>The <span class="caps">2GB</span> radio station tried to excuse Jones' error by telling <span class="caps">ACMA</span> it was obviously Jones' opinion. But <span class="caps">ACMA</span> found that Jones' claim would have been understood by a reasonable listener to have been a statement of fact. “The nature of the language, tenor and tone used was unequivocal and conclusive,” the <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib410174/2gb-reports_2597_2614_and_2636.pdf" target="_blank">investigation report</a> said. “The form of words neither indicated that it was contestable, nor qualified it as a statement of opinion.”</p>
<p>The radio station also argued that there was a divergence of scientific opinion on climate change and provided the investigators with evidence. But <span class="caps">ACMA</span> said that “none of those views cited by the licensee substantiate the figures set out in the impugned statement”.</p>
<p>Jones did have access to an editorial team to fact-check his statements but the investigation found that he hadn't called on them. Instead he had “researched the figures himself”. <span class="caps">ACMA</span> asked the radio station how Jones had come up with the figure, but they didn't get a response to the query.</p>
<p>The segment was in breach of a section of the <a href="http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/aba/contentreg/codes/radio/documents/commercial_radio-codes_and_guidelines_5sept2011.pdf" target="_blank">Commercial Radio Australia Codes of Practice</a>, which states that current affairs programs must use “reasonable efforts” to make sure that factual material is reasonably supportable as being accurate”.</p>
<p>But what effect will <span class="caps">ACMA</span>'s ruling have? In my view, the fact that a regalutor is giving some respect to the integrity of facts has to be a good sign. Listeners who have watched and listened to journalists and presenters misrepresent the facts on climate science will feel a small victory has been won.</p>
<p>But as The Guardian's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/oct/19/climate-change-facts-journalism" target="_blank">Leo Hickman has written</a>, there's a long way to go. Hickman is equally sceptical of the effect that the training might have on a “professional controversialist” such as Jones.</p>
<p>Certainly there seems to be no immediate effect. Since <span class="caps">ACMA</span> revealed the plan to send Jones and <span class="caps">2GB</span> to fact-checking classes, Jones has issued another “<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/shockjock-jones-001-per-cent-apology-20121019-27v88.html" target="_blank">apology</a>” for his error by issuing more misleading statements about the carbon cycle.</p>
<p>Jones is currently the patron of the <a href="http://www.galileomovement.com.au/who_we_are.php#H" target="_blank">Galileo Movement</a>, which also includes a long list of climate denialist “advisers” including Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute, Fred Singer, the Institute of Public Affairs' Bob Carter and Lord Christopher Monckton.</p>
<p>One name no longer on that list is News Ltd columnist and prolific climate sceptic blogger Andrew Bolt, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/andrew-bolt-cuts-ties-climate-science-denying-galileo-movement-over-alleged-anti-jewish-conspiracy-theory" target="_blank">who said the group had been spreading anti-semitic conspiracy theories</a> about Jewish banking families controlling the world.</p>
<p>Another of Australia's leading proponents of climate science denial, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, has also been courting controversy after stating that proposed laws to legalise gay marriage could lead to “consensual sexual relations between humans and animals”.</p>
<p>Bernardi subsequently <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/bernardi-resigns-over-bestiality-remark-20120919-265t0.html" target="_blank">resigned from his position</a> as the Liberal leader Tony Abbott's personal parliamentary secretary but has <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/bernardi-stands-by-bestiality-views-20121016-27nyj.html" target="_blank">refused to back down from his view</a>.</p>
<p>Bernardi, who has spoken at <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110610180805/http://www.heartland.org/events/2010Chicago/speakers.html" target="_blank">Heartland Institute</a> climate conferences alongside James M Taylor, has been forging links with the <span class="caps">US</span> Tea party movement through his Conservative Leadership Foundation.</p>
<p>The foundation has <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/bernardi-busy-behind-grassroots-anticarbon-tax-movement-20111015-1lqj7.html" target="_blank">helped to establish online “grassroots” activist organisations</a> campaigning against carbon pricing and promoting misleading views on climate change science. One such group is “<a href="http://www.cando.org.au/about/national-council-of-patrons" target="_blank">CanDo</a>”, which <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/mps-group-demands-fairfax-seat-for-rinehart-20120717-228jo.html" target="_blank">came out in support of climate sceptic mining magnate Gina Rinehart</a>'s recent tilt for a board seat on newspaper group Fairfax.</p>
<p>And to perhaps close this neat little circle of fringe beliefs, CanDo lists two “national patrons”. One is Hugh Morgan, a businessman who founded the <a href="http://www.lavoisier.com.au/lavoisier-about.php" target="_blank">Lavoisier Group</a> set up to fight attempts to “decarbonise” Australia.</p>
<p>The second patron is one “Alan Jones”. </p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-profile-related field-type-node-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Related Profile(s) :&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/christopher-monckton">Christopher Monckton</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/bob-carter">Bob Carter</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/7469">alan jones</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10612">2gb</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/7474">Cory Bernardi</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10613">CanDo</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/7033">galileo movement</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10614">Bb carter</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/1245">lord christopher monckton</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10615">Conservative Leadership Foundation</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10616">acma</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/939">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/3062">climate denial</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/6878">Tony Abbott</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/australia">Australia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/10617">juliar</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/directory/vocabulary/7471">julia gillard</a></div></div></div>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:09:01 +0000Graham Readfearn6593 at http://www.desmogblog.comAustralia Gets a Price on Carbon Despite Toxic Anti-Science Campaignhttp://www.desmogblog.com/australia-gets-price-carbon-despite-toxic-anti-science-campaign
<div class="field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/blog_teaser/public/blogimages/carbon_rally.jpg?itok=TyeS15Um" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><span class="caps">THEY</span> paid millions of dollars for adverts on television, in newspapers and online. They flew in climate change deniers from across the globe. They held rallies, engaged prominent right-wing media personalities, threatened scientists and turned the cold non-partisan findings of peer-reviewed science into some kind of blood sport.</p>
<p>But despite what was surely the dirtiest and most dishonest campaign ever waged before the Australian public, from next July major industrial emitters of greenhouse gases (about 500 of them) will have to pay $23 for every tonne of their pollution <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/accusations-fly-as-carbon-bills-pass/3551822">under laws passed earlier today</a>.</p>
<p>The torrent of self-interest, archaic so-called “free-market” ideology and unmitigated greenhouse gas pollution, will give way to modest payments for the right to continue to pollute, while placing billions into funds to finance clean energy projects.<br /><br />
Away from the propaganda, the bare facts read like this. The laws now pass to the Senate for a vote in early November.</p>
<p>The previous Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation also got this far but was voted down twice in 2009 before it was deferred permanently by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.</p>
<p>This time though, the Greens who helped forge the bills which make up the Clean Energy Future package hold the balance of power in the upper house. Barring something extraordinary, which noone - not even the Opposition - is able to envisage, the laws will pass.</p>
<p>From 1 July 2012, Australia's largest emitters of greenhouse gas emissions will have to pay a fixed price of $23 per tonne of pollution produced here. The price will rise to $25.40 per tonne in 2014/15. From 1 July 2015, an emissions trading scheme will be introduced where the government releases a fixed number of permits which major emitters will need to purchase through auctions. In the early stages, major industries will be given permits for free, but the assistance gets scaled back. The number of permits released by the government will be capped to enable Australia to cut its emissions by five per cent by 2020, based on 2000 levels.</p>
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<p>Despite Prime Minister Julie Gillard promising in the run up to the 2010 Federal election that she wouldn't introduce a price on carbon under “any government I lead”, a hung parliament left her no choice. The Greens and independents demanded the carbon price be put back on the agenda, in return for a deal that would <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/accusations-fly-as-carbon-bills-pass/3551822">keep Gillard in power</a>. </p>
<p>Labor and the Greens say the carbon price will open the floodgates for investment in renewable energy. Renewable energy advocates <a href="http://beyondzeroemissions.org/media/newswire/smh-electric-dreams-must-step-gas-110315" target="_blank">Beyond Zero Emissions</a> have claimed that unless the price gets close to $100 per tonne, then Australia will merely shift from brining coal to another fossil fuel - gas. </p>
<p>And while Australia acts on emissions produced on its own territory, it continues to cement its position as the world's biggest exporter of coal.</p>
<p>But what of that anti-tax campaign? The one which failed?</p>
<p>Earlier today, Greens Senator Christine Milne told me</p>
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This has been an appalling campaign of dishonesty with deliberate misinformation both on the science and on the economics - even to the extent of what is happening on climate change around the rest of the world. It has been highly personal. It is the same suite of interests that have undermined action on climate change for years - they moved on from cigarettes and tobacco to climate change.</div>
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In June, the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies revealed it had helped to pay for British climate change sceptic to fly to Australia for a tour, starting with a speech at their annual conference. But before Lord Monckton arrived, he was in hot water after it was revealed on <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2765990.html" target="_blank">The Drum</a> that he had compared Australia's former climate change policy advisor Professor Ross Garnaut to a Nazi - displaying a large swastika next to a quote from Professor Garnaut.</div>
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As reported in <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/29/sceptics-on-the-menu-at-rineharts-big-luncheon-bash/" target="_blank">Crikey</a>, Rinehart also sprung prominent climate change sceptic, mining entrepreneur and geology professor Ian Plimer on an audience at a lunch at her own home, which included <span class="caps">WA</span> Premier Colin Barnett and the Chinese Ambassador.</div>
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Then in July, the Australian Coal Association and the Minerals Council of Australia joined with other industry groups to form the launch a campaign against the tax. Reports suggested the group was willing to spend at least $10 million on the campaign (we won't know how much was spent, until the Australian Electoral Commission publishes its annual figures on political expenditure, which for the current financial year won't be until February 2013).</div>
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Former <span class="caps">UK</span> finance minister Lord Nigel Lawson, now chairman of the climate sceptic “think-tank” the <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/" target="_blank">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> (which, like the <span class="caps">IPA</span>, refuses to disclose its funders) was flown out to speak.</div>
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All the while, climate change scientists continued to receive <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2754194.html" target="_blank">abusive and threatening emails</a> designed to get them to <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/threats-may-chill-climate-research-in-long-run-1689" target="_blank">withdraw from the public space</a> - a campaign which they have endured for several years. One young researcher had excrement smeared on her car, another researcher was sent a message suggesting the sender would be happy to introduce her children to the local paedophile.</div>
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Many rallies were organised, where Prime Minister Julie Gillard was depicted on placards as a witch and where crowds chanted “ditch the bitch”. Opposition politicians lent their support and spoke at the rallies, including Liberal leader Tony Abbott, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi, Liberal <span class="caps">MP</span> Sophie Mirabella, Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce and Liberal Semator Eric Abetz.</div>
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In return for asking Alan Jones if he was being paid to appear at one rally, Sydney Morning Herald journalist <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-fee-me-and-alan-jones-how-question-of-money-turned-crowd-nasty-20110822-1j6fu.html" target="_blank">Jacqueline Maley</a> was publicly intimidated. When <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/backgroundbriefing/stories/2011/3268730.htm" target="_blank"><span class="caps">ABC</span> Radio National journalist Wendy Carlisle</a> attended one rally to hear Lord Monckton speak, she was physically jostled. Lord Monckton even threatened to sue the <span class="caps">ABC</span> because many of its presenters had asked him questions he didn't like, at one point calling the organisation's chairman Maurice Newman a “<a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/22/monckton-threatens-to-sue-abc-calls-chairman-a-shrimp/" target="_blank">shrimp-like wet little individual</a>”.</div>
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The final push from the deniers of human-caused climate change went totally unnoticed. On September 29, president of The Climate Sceptics Party Leon Ashby sent an email to his supporters, indicating they had joined with seven other anti-carbon tax groups in a letter writing campaign to <span class="caps">MP</span>s.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.readfearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/climate_sceptics_crean_letter.doc" target="_blank">attachment with the email</a> contained a template letter and one page of instructions to supporters. The template's author was Malcolm Roberts, the project leader for the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/denial-down-under-galileo-movement" target="_blank">Galileo Movement</a>, whose patron is radio shock-jock Alan Jones with an advisory panel which includes News Ltd columnist Andrew Bolt and a swathe of climate sceptics including Lord <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton">Christopher Monckton</a>.</div>
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“Help Make Two Weeks of Thunder”, screamed the letter. Recipients were asked to change the wording because “politicians disregard form letters”. Letter writers should “cc” copies of their letters to media personalities. Roberts told them these personalities should be The Australian newspaper's editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell, Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, <span class="caps">2SM</span> radio presenters Carter Edwards and Grant Goldman and, finally, resources and energy minister Martin Ferguson, who the letter claimed was “strongly sceptical” on the tax. A first letter encouraged supporters to target Minister Simon Crean while a second communication encouraged supporters to target <span class="caps">MP</span>s in marginal Labor seats.</div>
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But as it turned out, the thunderous campaigning failed to deliver a lightning strike to bring down the legislation, which passed earlier today by 74 votes to 72.</div>
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Hours before the laws were passed, Tony Abbott - whose Coalition is well ahead in the polls - managed to turn his anti-carbon tax rhetoric up to 11 on <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3337450.htm" target="_blank"><span class="caps">ABC</span> radio</a> by pledging to repeal the laws. </div>
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<p><em>Pic credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugfaker/" target="_blank">Flickr/mugfaker</a></em></p>
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